Setting Record Straight On Witches

Just a few days ago, just like every Friday the 13th, there was something in the air in Salem, Massachusetts.

It's hard to tell these days, but Salem's main attraction, its historical hysteria about witches, resulted from a great injustice more than three centuries ago. And this year as CBS News Correspondent Richard Schlesinger reports, talk around town is on finally correcting a wrong.

"There were 14 women and five men here who were executed," said Salem resident Paula Keene.

Keene grew up on what is still known as Gallows Hill where the alleged witches were hanged in 1692. Since then all of them have been pardoned by name all but five.

Nobody thinks that were these women witches anymore, so what's the point? As Keene explains, History proves they weren't witches.

Keene is on a mission to find a way to pardon the five women and Massachusetts State Representative Paul Tirone has agreed to take up the issue.